Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful day! Tomorrow is a Day 4 (music and library).

Library books are due back by Friday, May 31 – notices have been sent home).

Our final physical education trip will be taking place on Tuesday, June 11^th. We will be making our way to the YMCA Cedar Glen Outdoor Education Centre in Schomberg. We will be leaving by bus at 8:30 AM and returning around 3:15 PM. Please do not order hot lunch for this day as we will be provided lunch there.

Our SJA Parent Guild is hosting an SJA Year-End Play Day on Wednesday, June 12^th from 10:00-2:00. The cost for the play day is $20 ($15/sibling) and includes bouncy castles, obstacle course, face painting, Henna body art, photo booth, games, and clowns! For an extra $5, the following food choices will be available: 2 slices of cheese pizza, 2 hot dogs or 2 veggies samosas. Each option comes with chips and water. All proceeds raised will go towards our ongoing fundraising efforts.

Important dates/items:

Friday, May 31 –SJA vs TMA Track and Field Competition

Tuesday, June 11 – YMCA Cedar Glen Outdoor Education Trip

Wednesday, June 12 – Year-End Play Day

Friday, June 14 – Last Day of School and Promotion Ceremony at The Dome 

- JK-2 is from 9:00 - 11:00 AM

- Grade 3-6 is from 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

- Grade 7-11 is from 1:30 - 3:30 PM

**Please note there will be no shuttles running to and from the dome for our Promotion Ceremonies**

Unit of Inquiry

Today we continued creating a maze! Tomorrow we begin our summative!

The coding UOI summative packages have been sent home. This is our final summative of the year. Students have been hired by a successful video game corporation to create a game using Scratch. Students can either create a new game, or make a remake of a classic video game – students must state if they are doing this and give credit to the original creator. Students will need to begin by brainstorming ideas by sketching and describing sprites, setting a background, have a game purpose and create an original title if necessary. Students will also be required to hand write a minimum of a one page (front and back, double spaced) report on their game. They will need to address the objective of their game, the characters, the instructions on how to play their game, debugging (explaining what code provided the most challenge and why), document the progress and process, and lastly reflect on the game (did people enjoy it, how do they feel about it, etc.). Students will also need to create an advertisement. Students should refer to the outline and rubric throughout to ensure they are meeting all of the requirements. The summative is due Monday, June 10^th. All work must be completed in class!

HOMEWORK

-Mazes must be sent to me by 8:00 PM tonight

-Ensure your laptop is charged for tomorrow

-Summative due Monday, June 10^th

Friends helping friends yesterday during coding!

These mazes are coming along nicely!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we continued learning about relating distance, average speed and time. We learned that the distance travelled is the product of the average speed and time (Distance = average speed x time). We used charts and line graphs to display the information. We must remember to use appropriate scales on our graphs and add labels and a title!

Points to remember:

Representing patterns - we learned three ways to do this: create a table, write a pattern rule (Start at 2. Add 2 each time) or graph it. We see ordered pairs again in this unit – (1, 2) where the first coordinate is the frame number and the second coordinate is the number of tiles in a frame.

Input/Output machines - The coordinates on a graph of a growing pattern represent the Input/Output numbers in the table. Remember that an Input/Output looks like this - Input -> x3 -> -4 Output ->. Therefore, 2 x 3 - 4 = 2, 3 x 3 - 4 = 5, 4 x 3 - 4 = 8, etc. We can use a chart to help.

Euler’s Formula and other patterns for prisms - the number of faces + the number of vertices – 2 = the number of edges (F + V – 2 = E). For example, a triangular prism has 5 faces and 6 vertices. Therefore, 5 + 6 – 2 = 11 – 2 = 9, so a triangular prism has 9 edges.

Some other patterns for prisms are:

1) The number of faces of a prism is 2 more than the number of sides on the base – A hexagon has 6 sides, therefore 6 + 2 = 8, so 8 faces.

2) The number of vertices on a prism is double the number of sides on the base – a triangle has 3 sides, therefore 3 x 2 = 6 vertices.

3) The number of edges of a prism is triple the number of sides on the base – a pentagon has 5 sides, therefore 5 x 3 = 15 edges.

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg. 154-155

-Final math test is on Monday, June 3^rd

Inquiry into Language

Today we visited our reading buddies, who showed us their summatives. We also spent some time on coding.

HOMEWORK

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It is truly amazing the bond we have created with our reading buddies!!

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar